The major crisis that companies and corporations, are facing today is not only the increase of oil prices, recession and other related economical issues, as much as the lack of competence and ability to forethought the future by those who are entitled to decide. When we ask the simple questions: “Where do those managers come from? Why do they behave like that?” we see a more complex problem of the ruling class and the executives, and of a society where the intellectual basics are undermined more and more by a primitive materialistic mentality, and a future vision plays little or no role at all.
This issue is clearly related to the not well-perceived crisis of the modern academic system that is able to provide degrees and certificates, without inspiring students in the values and higher truths of knowledge.
It is always possible to save money by reducing quality, and that is what is happening in the industrial societies all over the planet. A plethora of managers with very impressive resumes from prestigious universities, prefer to cut jobs and pay people less: reduce the quality to make more money, instead of taking the “road less traveled”. Customers do not have to wonder if they are treated poorly by one flight attendant who receives 20.000 dollars a year plus per diem, while the manager who decides to cut the jobs receives a few million!
Another thing that universities are supposed to imbue is the sense of decency and humanity. But just how decent is someone who gains millions and instead of optimizing processes, using his professionalism to save money and keep people at work, just decides to exclude them because it’s easier? Not very decent, I guess, but that is how the new world is.
© Sergio Caldarella, 2009.
